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The current state and future of C++

Justin James thinks there is still great potential for C++ developers to do quite nicely for themselves. Read more »

Red Hat announces strategy to 'future-proof' Java

Red Hat announced the JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy, an approach that the company says will redefine the use of Java in the enterprise by making it easier to develop and deploy applications. Read more »

Trouble in Java Land?

Maybe the debut of JavaFX will be the game changer that Sun hopes for. But the fragmentation in the mobile world won't make it easy. Read more »

Tags: at&t, java, javafx, sun

Q&A with Sun's Reginald Hutcherson

Builder AU recently had a quick chat with Reginald Hutcherson, Director Technology Outreach for Sun Microsystems about what's new in the world of Java. Read more »

Save time in Java when coding IEEE floating point numbers

Does your Java project need to create floating point numbers from a series of bits or create a sequence of bits from a floating point number? Then check out how the Float class can do the work for you. Read more »

Maximise your jdb debugging sessions

Jdb, the Java Debugger provided by Sun, can do most of the things you're used to doing in your normal debugger. Find out how you can get the most out of your jdb debugging sessions. Read more »

Should you install the new version of Java?

Sun Microsystems released a new version of Java for Windows, Linux and Solaris recently. Should you rush out to install it? Probably not. Read more »

LINQ for next Java query API?

LINQ could become the next query API for Java, after the majority agreed at a recent meeting of the Object Database Technology Working Group (ODBTWG), as well as the ICOODB conference in Berlin that it was the optimal solution. Read more »

Java on Google App Engine? Not yet

Reports out of a Google developer conference in India indicated that Google was primed to add support for Java programs running on its presently Python-only Google App Engine. Read more »

Choose your own version of serialisation in Java

When you attempt to recreate an object from serialised data, if the current class's version doesn't match the version number found in the serialised data, then an InvalidClassException will be thrown. Read this Java tip to discover how you can prevent this error. Read more »

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